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  • Disable Powersave USB Device

    If you don’t want a device (Example XBox Controller) to be turned off, you can unset the corresponding checkbox in the Device Manager (“Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power”) or if you want to do it automatically, you can set this registry value: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\VID_xxxx&PID_xxx\[ID]\Device Parameters\WDF\IdleInWorkingState = 0 (REG_DWORD) Example XBox…

  • Fill SCCM collection with PowerShell

    Hi everyone, In this post, I’m going to show you how to fill an SCCM collection with PowerShell from a file that contains device names. This can be useful if you want to deploy software or settings to a specific group of devices that you have already identified. SCCM collections are logical groups of resources…

  • Is Windows 11 a disaster like Windows Vista?

    Windows 11 is Microsoft’s latest operating system, which was released in October 2021. It features a new design with a centered Taskbar, rounded window corners, and translucent effects. It also introduces new ways to discover and download apps, such as the Microsoft Store and Amazon Appstore integration. But is Windows 11 worth upgrading to? Or…

  • enable duplex printing

    Our Student Users don’t have admin rights. So it was necessary to adapt the [UsedPrinterName].ppd file. And set the Value from  DefaultAPOptionalDuplexer: False to True. magic: sed -i ” ‘s/*search_string/*replace_string/g’ /path/to/file.extension “-i ”” edit the changes into the same file (there is a blank between -i  and the double empty quote!

  • AppleShowAllExtensions

  • Little Engineer – Video

    This video shows the guided version of new features before the child has to solve it alone.

  • Little Engineer – first use

    “Little obstacles with fun” My six-year-old son, was the first tester.  He did quite well. And played in the first attempt at level 20. We had difficulties with the engineer blocks. Since we did not know when these were detected. But after an acclimatization phase everything went quite well. Drag and drop program elements like…

  • Little Engineer – Unboxing

    The surprise package has arrived! (I received no email notification) surprise surprise a little engineer kit is in the box 😉 ´ first look two storage boxes (one for the blocks and the other for the iPad holder and the camera mirror) iPad holder engineer blocks ready to use At the first look, everything fits…